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[QUOTE="MikeSU02, post: 5537728, member: 60"]
On paper, I think our stable of QBs coming in was fine. Not great, but fine. Obviously would have wanted Angeli earlier, but that's life and these things never work perfectly.

And Rickie was recruited by big schools and when he left LSU he seemingly left on good terms with the program. LSU fans wanted him to succeed with the understanding that since Nuss was coming back, he wouldn't want to wait another year.

The "but" is that upon watching Rickie for a few games now, he is making mistakes that are glaring and really feel like Rickie has been living on "upside" for a while now. There are missed throws that are way off. There are times where he's making errant reads that you would expect a decent HS QB to make.

And that last piece is what is shocking to me. Because he was not only named starter but then was a solid #2 when Angeli beat him out. And I would expect at least some modicum of decent play. I don't need all world stats. And I get that 1) him being named starter was likely nominal and 2) guys do under perform when it comes to games vs practice. But he *really* seems like playing QB is almost foreign to him at times. He'll always make a couple of throws that look the part of a superstar because of his innate traits, but holy cow he otherwise looks like he is an actor playing a QB.

So I think I agree with you. And I believe what you wrote is 100% fair and accurate. But Rickie seems so out of his element as the backup who at one point was the starter that it seems like the evaluation of him must have been practice environment super performance. Which, hey, may be the case.
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